25 Years Later and Bree Sharp Is Still Asking Why Won’t I Love Her

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Grace Cohen-Chen

Society & Culture

4.6 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In 1999, the musician Bree Sharp released a single titled “David Duchovny,” off her debut album, A Cheap and Evil Girl. Despite it being the early days of the internet, the song — with its refrain “David Duchovny, why won’t you love me?” — found its way to me, as did the surprise music video that a bunch of people came together to make for our X Files Christmas party. In the time since, Bree and I have only spoken a handful of times — so for the first time, she and I sit down to talk about how and why she wrote the song, what it’s meant for her career, and all the thoughts I’ve been sitting on about the lyrics. Then, finally, Bree gives a full performance undisturbed by my commentary, and we time-travel back to the moment this first entered the world. Or maybe you just Want To Believe that. The 25th anniversary edition of A Cheap And Evil Girl is available now on eco-friendly vinyl, and folks in New York and Pennsylvania can catch Bree on tour in April. Tickets can be found on her website, www.breesharp.com. Follow me on Instagram at @davidduchovny. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our shows and get bonus content. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's morning in New York.
0:02.8	Oh, God.
0:06.2	Hey, everybody.
0:07.3	I'm Mandy Patinkin.
0:08.7	And I'm Catherine Grady.
0:09.8	And we have a new podcast.
0:11.7	It's called Don't Listen to Us.
0:14.1	Many of you've asked for our advice.
0:16.1	Tell me, what is wrong with you people?
0:19.2	Don't listen to us.
0:20.3	Our Take It or Leave a Adv Device show every Wednesday, out now.
0:24.7	A Lemonada Media Original.
0:36.1	I'm David Duccovney, and this is Fail Better, a show where failure, not success, shapes who we are.
0:43.2	Today's guest is musician and actor, Bree Sharp.
0:46.3	Now, if you're listening to this podcast, there's a good chance you know, Bree, as the writer and performer, of a very particular song.
0:52.9	A song called, I forget the exact, now
0:56.0	David Duchovney is what it's called. For those unfamiliar, Breeze Anthem, which rhymes my name
1:01.3	with, Why Won't You Love Me, hovering above me, and other phrases I had never thought of throughout
1:06.1	the chorus. It's an ode to an admiring fictional characters, specifically, my character on The X-Files.
1:12.8	It even had its own underground music video
1:14.8	featuring dozens of celebrity cameos,
1:17.0	and that was in 1999.
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